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FRIDAY, 21 DECEMBER 2012
Quality family time:
everyone on a different screen in the same room, harvested by the same algorithm.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your banking app pauses slightly before opening. It's deciding how to tell you.
- You asked the chatbot if you were a good parent. It said "absolutely" before…
- You started saying "oof" when you sit down. That's the countdown, out loud.
- You "grew out of" your old friends. They grew out of waiting for you…
- You have a "comfort show". You've watched it 11 times. You've seen your friends…
- Nobody notices when you do your job well. Everyone notices when you leave at…
- You said you'd "touch grass" this weekend. You took a photo of grass, posted…
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